Childhood lasts all through life.
GASTON BACHELARDEvery corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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